Word: finally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suddenly came the moment the Senate has been waiting for since last Feb. 5 when the President called for Court Reform, the moment that meant the final decision in the bitterest legislative battle of a decade. In an instant, the Senate was in an uproar. Loudest voice in the tumult of shouts and laughter was Pennsylvania's Guffey, last-ditch supporter of the President's demand for more Justices, slamming his desk with the palm of his hand to get attention and crying, "Mr. President, Mr. President, I want to be recorded as voting against this Bill...
...captured 132 Germans. There, in 47 days of storming into the face of the Hindenburg Line about 123,000 Americans were killed or wounded. Some 900,000 others, nearly as many as the Confederacy mustered in four years, came through unscathed to live to tell the tale of the final break-through to Sedan and draw their bonuses...
...decanters, working down to delicately controlled processes in vessels hardly larger than thimbles. When the concentration of radium is as high as 1%, trained chemists take over the job, wearing protective gloves and clothing and working intermittently to avoid injury from the potent gamma, beta and alpha rays. The final product is not pure radium but 90 to 94% pure radium bromide...
...suspect either, until Commandant O'Dea is surprised on a tip given by an informer, shot by Captain Wiltshire after Inspector Hannay's gun jams. When Maureen nevertheless helps Captain Wiltshire to escape a Sinn Fein trap, the Inspector realizes where her affections lie and, as a final gallant gesture, takes the blame for shooting her brother himself...
...which red-haired Maurice McLoughlin won from Norman Brookes in 1914. Last week at Wimbledon, when another red-haired Californian, Donald Budge, played husky Charles Edgar Hare of England in the 1937 Davis Cup challenge round, the games seesawed with service up to 13-all before Budge finally broke through to win. What made the set more remarkable was that Hare, England's No. 2, had been considered barely able enough to make Budge stretch his long legs. Even when Budge ran out the next two sets 6-1, 6-2 it caused tennis experts, who had regarded...